Dec 12, 2015

Anguish facing proactivity and infinite training. "We do not understand what is happening, and that is what happens to us" (Ortega y Gasset).

Neoliberal capitalism (perhaps especially with
the long post 2008 crisis) and the society of knowledge that is nowadays
turboglbalized, have also increased tremendously the harrowing competition of
all against all.No leviathan can
guarantee today the invulnerability of the medium-term national boundaries or
effectively protect the population against the excesses of international
markets.

That is why the new cognitive turboglobalized
capitalism imposes to all the population a profound metamorphosis in training,
attitudes and even long term life projects. Although there are very significant
differences, this change affects similarly to managers, technicians, experts,
politicians, intellectuals... and workers most of all. As always, the more
closer to poverty people are, the more pressure and exclusion they suffered,
the more down in the social hierarchy they are, the less empowerment capability
they have. No doubt these differences in the quantity and quality of human capital
depend critically on social hierarchy and structure.

Behind the important similarities already
commented, there are significant differences between the 21st century Brazil
and the 19th century England. In the classic English case -e.g. Manchester –, a
very conflictive situation forced the population to make a very painful and
distressing jump -simplifying- from rural and agricultural communities to urban
and industrial societies. Now, the challenge that often has to face the
population of emerging countries -like Brazil- is one even bigger, almost comparable
with the "Neolithic revolution" (according to a famous expression
used by Gordon Childe). In some cases the population is forced to jump from
degraded situations almost close to the hunter-gatherers communities, to the current
post-Fordist and knowledge society.

Dec 11, 2015

We will analyze new emerging vulnerabilities in the transition
from taylorist-Fordist environments or -even worse- preindustrial environments,
to post-Fordist environments and to the "knowledge society". We will
especially address important cases (in emerging countries such as Brazil) of
intense violation of population rights, where the population is forced to
migrate to the metropolis (post-fordist environments) due to a dispossession or
destruction of the rural environments they lived in.

Undoubtedly, social and technological changes always createnew vulnerabilities. When populations that are empowered in oneenvironmentare relocated, they lose their
living conditions, and with this, they lose also their power “to manage their
own life”, their adaptation habits and therefore, they inevitably suffera hugebreach in their capabilities to
deal with social threats (vulnerability increases).

Here, we will try to point out some of the
transformations that are more difficult to overcome, the ones that cause more vulnerability
and that currently affect a large part of the population in emerging countries,
like Brazil.Such transformations are
associated with the new capitalism of the 21st century, which - as everybody
knows- is becoming more neo-liberal, turboglobalized, post-Fordist and deeply marked
by the knowledge society. We will also see how these transformations affect the
development model of emerging countries –including economic, social and
educational development. In these sense, Brazil, just like the others BRICS countries
(including Russia, China, India and South Africa) is a good example of the
challenges and difficulties encountered in such situations nowadays.